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<p>Brian Martin was influenced by a Journey Group before he ever attended one. Brian is VP of Sales Development…</p>

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    <p>Brian Martin was influenced by a Journey Group before he ever attended one. Brian is VP of Sales Development for
    Verochem, Inc. and an attender of NRHC. His wife, Stacie, was attending a ladies’ Journey Group led by Tammy Heiber.
    He was amazed at how God was changing her life. Yet he had perfectly good reasons to avoid getting involved.</p>
    
    <p>“My major fear about attending a Journey Group was opening up with other guys and letting them see where I was
    spiritually and how weak I was,” Brian said.  But his desire to grow finally helped him take a big step and try a
    Journey Group.  Watching God at work in Stacie’s life made him hungry for the same in his life. “I saw how she was
    growing spiritually… I just craved some of that as well.”</p>
    
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<p>Brian tried a men’s Journey Group over a year ago that met weekly at Panera Bread and he experienced something
different than expected. He found men in the group who were just like him. “I discovered there were other guys just like
me which was very calming. We were all trying to grow spiritually,” Brian said.</p>

<p>God is doing new things in Brian’s life as a result of his involvement. “Now I am opening up more, praying more,
reading my Bible more, and really taking the sermon to a different level,” he explained. “In our Journey Group we get to
dig into the sermon a little further than you can in just an hour” he added.  He described an unexplainable “void” in
his life God is now filling through his JG connection.</p>

<p>Brian believes anyone who tries a Journey Group will make some of the same discoveries he has.  “You will meet real
people, living real lives, with real problems, all for the same purpose – trying to grow closer to God.”</p>

<p>This Sunday at NHRC you will have an opportunity to sign-up for a Journey Group.  A  JG is a smaller group of people
(around 10-12) that meets each week to grow in friendship, faith, and mission.  Journey Group leaders will be in the
lobby after each service to answer questions and help get you connected to a group. You can also request a Journey Group
online.</p>

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